First Steps to Botany [...]Longman, 1826 - 391 страници |
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... Give me to scan ; through the disclosing deep Light my blind way ; the mineral strata there ; Thrust , blooming , thence the vegetable world ; O'er that the rising system , more complex , Of animals ; and higher still , the mind , The ...
... Give me to scan ; through the disclosing deep Light my blind way ; the mineral strata there ; Thrust , blooming , thence the vegetable world ; O'er that the rising system , more complex , Of animals ; and higher still , the mind , The ...
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... give an antique appearance to the whole . This kind of stunted vegetation seemed to be much relished by the curious in China ; and specimens of it were to be found in every con- siderable dwelling . —Staunton's Embassy , vol . i . p ...
... give an antique appearance to the whole . This kind of stunted vegetation seemed to be much relished by the curious in China ; and specimens of it were to be found in every con- siderable dwelling . —Staunton's Embassy , vol . i . p ...
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... give us flesh to eat ? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely ; the cucumbers , and the melons , and the leeks , and the onions , and the garlic . " - Now in this country the loss of the latter articles would not be ...
... give us flesh to eat ? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely ; the cucumbers , and the melons , and the leeks , and the onions , and the garlic . " - Now in this country the loss of the latter articles would not be ...
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... gives a figure of a tree found in Surinam , called the Matakee tree , whose roots , he says , " spread above ground in such a manner that they will conceal a score of men from each other ; " and he farther mentions that a man on ...
... gives a figure of a tree found in Surinam , called the Matakee tree , whose roots , he says , " spread above ground in such a manner that they will conceal a score of men from each other ; " and he farther mentions that a man on ...
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... gives a beautiful description of the Banyan in the ninth book of the Paradise Lost . He introduces it as that tree to which Adam and Eve retired , to form for themselves garments , after having eaten the fatal fruit ; the leaves ...
... gives a beautiful description of the Banyan in the ninth book of the Paradise Lost . He introduces it as that tree to which Adam and Eve retired , to form for themselves garments , after having eaten the fatal fruit ; the leaves ...
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afford animals anther appearance beautiful blossoms botanist Botany branches buds bulb called calyx capsule CAULIS clothed colour common compound flower contains corolla covered culm cuticle different species Digynia earth example feet ferns filaments fleshy floating florets FOLIUM frond fructification fruit Fuci Fucus garden genera genus grasses green grow hairs hence herb insects instance INVOLUCRUM Jamaica juice kind latter leaf leaf-stalk leaflets leaves Legume Lichen lily Linnæus means Monogynia mosses named native nature nourishment observe palm peduncle perhaps perianth pericarp petals petiole pinnate pinnate leaf pistil plants pollen primrose produce RADIX receptacle remarkable resemble root round says scarcely sea-weeds seed-vessels seeds shrub silicle Sir J. E. Smith sometimes stalk stamens stem stipe succulent plants surface sweet tendrils term thick thorn Travels trees TRIANDRIA Trigynia trunk tube tubers umbel vegetables violet volva Voyage winds Withering wood
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Страница 258 - Sir, believe me, upon my relation for what I tell you, the world shall not reprove. I have been in the Indies, where this herb grows, where neither myself, nor a dozen gentlemen more of my knowledge, have received the taste of any other nutriment in the world, for the space of one and twenty weeks, but the fume of this simple only: therefore, it cannot be, but 'tis most divine.